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Indian doctors remove 7.4kg kidney from patient
Indian doctors have removed a kidney weighing
7.4kg (16.3lbs) - as much as two newborn babies - from a patient.
It's believed to be the largest kidney ever removed in India - a kidney
usually weighs between 120-150g.
The patient was suffering from a condition called Autosomal Dominant
Polycystic Kidney Disease, which causes cysts to grow all over the organ.
One doctor involved in the operation said large kidneys were common in
patients with the disease.
However, Dr. Sachin Kathuria, from Sir Ganga Ram hospital in Delhi, said
doctors generally would not remove the organ unless there were symptoms of
infection and internal bleeding, as they were performing at least some
filtering functions in the body.
"This patient had contracted a bad infection that was not
responding to antibiotics, and the kidney's massive size was causing the
patient breathing difficulties, so we had no choice but to remove it," he
said.
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Dr. Kathuria added that doctors were expecting a large kidney when they
operated, but the size of this organ had still surprised them.
"His other kidney is even bigger", he told the BBC.
He said the heaviest kidney according to the Guinness World Records is
4.5kg, although urology journals had records of kidneys that were even heavier
than this one. One from the US weighed 9kg while another from the Netherlands
was 8.7kg.
Dr. Kathuria said doctors had not decided whether to submit their
findings to the Guinness commission as a world record, but they were
"considering it".
According to the NHS website, Polycystic kidney disease is a common hereditary
condition, which causes problems when patients are between 30 and 60 years old.
It causes kidney function to deteriorate until it finally culminates in
kidney failure.


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